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\c 40
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\p
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\q1
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\v 1 "Comfort, comfort my people," says your God.
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\q1
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\v 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem; and proclaim to her
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\q1 that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity is pardoned,
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\q1 that she has received double from Yahweh's hand for all her sins.
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\p
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\q1
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\v 3 A voice cries out,
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\q1 "In the wilderness prepare the way of Yahweh;
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\q1 make straight in the Arabah a highway for our God."
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\f + \ft Some older modern versions have \fqa A voice cries out in the wilderness.... \fqb \f*
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\q1
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\v 4 Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be leveled;
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\q1 and the rugged land will be made level, and the
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rough places a plain;
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\q1
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\v 5 and the glory of Yahweh will be revealed, and all people will see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
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\p
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\v 6 A voice says, "Cry." Another answers, "What should I cry?"
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\q1 "All flesh is grass, and all their covenant faithfulness is like the
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flower of the field.
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\v 7 The grass withers and the flower wilts when the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely humanity is grass.
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\v 8 The grass withers, the flower wilts, but the word of our God will stand forever."
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\p
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\q1
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\v 9 Go up on a high mountain, Zion, bearer of good news;
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\f + \ft Instead of \fqa Go up on a high mountain, Zion, bearer of good news \fqb , some versions have \fqa You who are bearing good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain \fqb . \f*
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\q1 lift up your voice with strength. Jerusalem, proclaimer of good news, cry out loudly; do not be afraid.
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\f + \ft Instead of \fqa Jerusalem, proclaimer of good news \fqb , some versions have \fqa proclaim good news to Jerusalem \fqb . \f*
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\q1 Say to the cities of Judah, "Here is your God!"
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\v 10 Look, the Lord Yahweh comes as a victorious warrior, and his strong arm rules for him.
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\q1 See, his reward is with him, and his recompense goes before him.
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\v 11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather in his arm the lambs,
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\q1 and carry them close to his heart,
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\q1 and will gently lead the ewes nursing their young.
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\p
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\v 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, measured the span of the sky,
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\q1 held the dust of the earth in a basket, weighed the mountains in scales,
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\q1 or the hills in a balance?
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\v 13 Who has comprehended the mind of Yahweh, or instructed him as his counselor?
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\v 14 From whom did he ever receive instruction? Who taught him the correct way to do things,
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\q1 and taught him knowledge, or showed to him the way of understanding?
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\v 15 Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded like the dust on the scales;
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\q1 see, he weighs the isles as a speck.
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\v 16 Lebanon is not sufficient fuel,
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\q1 nor its wild animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
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\v 17 All the nations are insufficient before him; they are regarded by him as nothing.
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\p
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\v 18 To whom then will you compare God? To what idol will you liken him?
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\v 19 An idol! A craftsman casts it: the goldsmith overlays it with gold
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\q1 and forges silver chains for it.
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\v 20 To make an offering one chooses a wood that will not rot;
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\q1 he seeks a skillful artisan to make an idol that will not fall over.
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\v 21 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning?
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\q1 Have you not understood from the
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foundations of the earth?
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\v 22 He is the one who sits above the horizon of the earth; and the inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him.
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\q1 He stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to live in.
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\v 23 He reduces rulers to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth insignificant.
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\v 24 See, they are barely planted; see, they are barely sown; see, they have barely taken root in the earth,
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\q1 before he blows upon them, and they wither, and the wind blows them away like straw.
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\v 25 "To whom then will you compare me, who do I resemble?"
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says the Holy One.
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\v 26 Look up at the sky! Who has created all these stars?
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\q1 He leads out their formations and calls them all by
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name.
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\q1 By the greatness of his might and by the strength of his power, not one is missing.
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\p
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\v 27 Why do you say, Jacob and declare, Israel,
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\q1 "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and my God is not concerned about my vindication?"
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\v 28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
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\q1 The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth,
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\q1 does not get tired or weary; there is no limit to his understanding.
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\v 29 He gives strength to the tired; and to the weak he gives renewed energy.
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\v 30 Even young people become tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall:
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\v 31 but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength; they will soar with wings like eagles;
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\q1 they will run and not be weary; they will walk and not faint.
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